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Peer reviewedBen-Zeev, Talia; Star, Jon R. – Cognition and Instruction, 2001
This study investigated whether undergraduate students encode spurious correlations in memory and exhibit them during the learning process leading to ineffectual problem solving. Findings suggested that even experienced students relied on surface-structure feature-algorithm correlations for solving new problems. Findings pose implications for…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Correlation, Encoding (Psychology), Error Patterns
